One Month Building in Public — Here's What I Shipped

Tabularis was born on the night of January 25th, 2026. A solo project — one person, a frustration turned into code, a binary pushed to GitHub. Today is exactly one month since that first release. And in one month, it stopped being a solo project. I believe deeply in what this can become. Not just as a database tool, but as proof that a small team — or even a single person — can build something genuinely useful, genuinely open, and genuinely worth growing. That belief hasn't wavered for a single day. If anything, watching people show up and contribute has made it stronger. A lot has happened. The Numbers ~ 280 stars . 5 contributors . Around 1,000 downloads . Around twenty issues opened by people who actually tried the product, pull requests reviewed, bugs squashed. For a one-month-old open source project, that's not nothing — that's a community. And communities don't happen by accident. They happen because people show up. So: thank you. Genuinely. What We Built A month ago, Tabularis c